Haftorah

Definitions

n. a short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah

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In a lot of ways, we've let our parents in arguably, too far in - from obsessing over our Haftorah portion, or scouring our college apps, or baking 651 color-coded cupcakes for the lacrosse game that you were sure you'd lose.

And for this, too, Andy has prepared, combing research books for insights into tomorrow morning's Haftorah reading until he found an interesting commentary by Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and a relevant verse from the Baghvad Gita.

Picking up the piano at the age of 5, drums at 9, Aaron truly began his musical awakening as the Bar Mitzvah boy, auditioning for manhood studying melodies of the Haftorah (the world's oldest songbook), suffering the typical teenage dread and fear of his omniscient cantor.

So we see that the Haftorah readings heard in the synagogue conclude at the very verse which begins the controversial "Suffering Servant" passage. and the readings pick up just after the 53rd chapter of Isaiah.